Summary: The Benefits Of Year-Round Schooling

“What’s your favorite time of year?” “Summer!” This is a common question asked by an adult, and a typical reply from a child. Of course summer is their favorite time of the year because they have summer break! 10-12 weekes full of sun and fun! What’s not to love? Well, if the year round school people get their way, these kids would be really upset. Year round schooling is becoming more and more common in USA. Although many schools still have the traditional summer break, many school are converting to year round schooling. From being unable to find appropriate child care, to a detriment to family structure, and a financial toll.

Traditional school schedules have kids in school from late summer until late spring, the year-round schedule has kids in school all year but the difference is there are longer breaks in the year-round schedule. It is time to switch from the traditional schedule to the year-round schedule because students learn better and don’t lose information over a long summer break, is more convenient for everyone and reduces the stress of school and makes it more enjoyable.

This is due to the fact that many parents have work schedules that do not align precisely with a year-round schedule. Also, parents are sometimes schoolteachers and if a teacher educates at a different school than their child, their breaks will not be in-sync with each others. Both of these reasons effect finding childcare because with a year-round schedule “it can be hard to find a babysitter for two weeks every six weeks.” (www.scholastic.com 1) This means that because of sporadic breaks between school days, childcare is difficult to

“As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions namely, how can we bring play back to our nation’s schools?” (Darell Hammond) Year-round schooling would cause many problems if implemented at shattuck because Year-round schooling cost to much money and Kids need free time, and time with family and friends, also If you go to year-round schooling you won 't learn more than traditional schooling.

Would you like to go to a year-round school? Having weeks off and only going for a couple months at a time. Well some people enjoy the time and time off during the school year and some people rather go all year. In the next couple paragraphs I will inform you about many things that connect to year-round schooling.

Students that are in school during the summer find it harder to concentrate on the work that they are doing in school because they are waiting to get out of school into the nice weather. Year round schools make it difficult to learn with many breaks that they are given which can affect them negatively in and out of school. Year round schools should give long breaks instead of many little breaks because it is shown that there is no difference in learning between year round schools and traditional schools.

The “traditional calendar” has been used by schools for many years; maybe, it is time for change. Whether schools in Florida should switch to a year-round calendar has been a debate of increasing interest by students, and counties across Florida. Schools in Florida should switch to a year-round calendar, because it decreases student, and teacher burnout, and the amount of time spent reviewing. Although the traditional calendar allows for easier scheduling of extracurricular activities, the increased review time, burnout, and lost knowledge just isn’t worth it. That is why schools in Florida should switch to year-round school.

Did you know that China has one of the best education programs in the world? Why are China’s students so successful? They go to school year round. In fact, the number of year round schools increased 26% in 2007.

Attending classes year round would be outrageous. If the students did attend classes year round it would be hard to spend time with family or friends, the students would have no beaks from homework, and wouldn’t get a 10-to 12-week summer break.

Tired of learning material during a school year, only to forget it during summer break? All-year school is becoming more popular throughout the United States. School systems are rapidly changing to this new phenomenon. If students went to school year round, there would a more efficient time schedule, less material forgot, and in the end, the students would have more days off.

Some people believe that school should be nine months instead of year round so kids could enjoy their summers.

Many students give a sigh of relief when the first day of summer vacation finally arrives. But in reality, summer vacation is pushing students backwards by increasing the knowledge gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students and decreases learning productivity. Year round schooling helps push students forward academically, make the school year feel shorter for both students and teachers, and help less privileged students catch up to their more privileged peers.

How does year-round of school, with a few breaks, help students with furthering their education ? A year-round of school with a few breaks will help the students brains regain more information about things they learn in school and makes sure that what they learn is helpful for them in the future. For example, school everyday will help keep the students knowledge they already have stay in there minds, help get them further ahead in their studies, and graduate and be done with school faster.

How much does summer vacation mean to you? That's the question many families ask themselves as they make the choice for year round schooling. With year round schooling students take several breaks, similar to a winter break in length, instead of one long break in the summer. Some people feel it is a terrible idea, while others say the academic aspect is superior. Although some people feel strong about year round schooling, year-round schooling is not the best educational option for students.

How would you feel if you had to work all year round? You would most likely come home every extremely tired and worn out every single day. Having to work every day all year would be immensely tiring and would give little to no benefits. Even though it would allow students to have shorter weeks, they would still most likely have work to do on those days. Having year-round schooling would only become an annoyance to students, teachers, and parents. I am against year-round schooling because it gives students little to no time for breaks, it would become an inconvenience to students, teachers, and parents, and it would burn students out much more quickly.